IACA EXPLORING CRIME ANALYSIS - ALL CHAPTERS
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED
VERIFIED AND 100% ACCURATE ANSWERS BRAND NEW
EXAM ALREADY GRADED A+ PASS
Ways Crime Analysts Help Agencies Ans✓✓✓ Solve crimes
Develop Strategies to Prevent Future Crimes
Find and apprehend offenders
Prosecute and convict offenders
Improve traffic safety and quality of life
Optimize internal operations
Prioritize patrol and investigations
Detect and solve chronic problems
Allocate Resources
Plan for future resource needs
Enact effective policies
Educate the public
Intelligence Ans✓✓✓ Any information of operational value as a
product, rather than a source of, analysis
Transition from data to knowledge Ans✓✓✓ Data --- Analysis ---
Information --- Communication --- Knowledge to formulate a result
Father of American Policing Ans✓✓✓ August Vollmer
,Vollmer's Innovations Ans✓✓✓ police radios
fingerprinting
pin mapping
regular review of police reports
formation of patrol districts based on crime volume
First known reference to crime analysis Ans✓✓✓ O.W. Wilson's 2nd
edition Police Administration
What agency/administration funded crime analysis in the late 1970's?
Ans✓✓✓ LEAA, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
When was IACA established? Ans✓✓✓ 1990
When was the first IACA conference? Ans✓✓✓ 1991
What other resources helped establish the Crime Analysis profession?
Ans✓✓✓ US Government through community and problem oriented
policing.
National Institute of Justice's Crime Mapping and Analysis Program
(CMAP).
,Crime Mapping Research Center (later known as the Mapping and
Analysis for Public Safety Program.
Crime Analysis Ans✓✓✓ A profession and a process in which a set of
quantitative and qualitative techniques are used to analyze data valuable
to police agencies.
Types of Crime Analysis Ans✓✓✓ Tactical Crime Analysis
Strategic Crime Analysis
Crime Intelligence Analysis
Administrative Crime Analysis
Tactical Crime Analysis Ans✓✓✓ Analysis of police data directed
towards short term development of patrol and investigative priorities and
deployment of resources.
Strategic Crime Analysis Ans✓✓✓ Analysis of data directed towards
development and evaluation of long-term strategies, policies and
prevention techniques.
Crime Intelligence Analysis Ans✓✓✓ Analysis of data about people
involved in crimes, particularly repeat offenders, repeat victims and
criminal organizations and networks.
, Administrative Crime Analysis Ans✓✓✓ Analysis directed towards the
administrative needs of the police agency, its government and its
community.
Crime Analysis is NOT: Ans✓✓✓ Crime scene investigation or forensic
science.
Profiling
Criminological Research
Most frequent method to identify crime patterns: Ans✓✓✓ Daily review
of crime reports and comparison of those reports to past incidents
Crime patterns focus on the following: Ans✓✓✓ Who
What
When
Where
How
Hot Spots Ans✓✓✓ Small geographic concentrations of crime, usually
long term
Three ways crime collects around people in crime intelligence analysis:
Ans✓✓✓ Individual offenders (repeat offenders, top offenders, high
profile offenders)
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED
VERIFIED AND 100% ACCURATE ANSWERS BRAND NEW
EXAM ALREADY GRADED A+ PASS
Ways Crime Analysts Help Agencies Ans✓✓✓ Solve crimes
Develop Strategies to Prevent Future Crimes
Find and apprehend offenders
Prosecute and convict offenders
Improve traffic safety and quality of life
Optimize internal operations
Prioritize patrol and investigations
Detect and solve chronic problems
Allocate Resources
Plan for future resource needs
Enact effective policies
Educate the public
Intelligence Ans✓✓✓ Any information of operational value as a
product, rather than a source of, analysis
Transition from data to knowledge Ans✓✓✓ Data --- Analysis ---
Information --- Communication --- Knowledge to formulate a result
Father of American Policing Ans✓✓✓ August Vollmer
,Vollmer's Innovations Ans✓✓✓ police radios
fingerprinting
pin mapping
regular review of police reports
formation of patrol districts based on crime volume
First known reference to crime analysis Ans✓✓✓ O.W. Wilson's 2nd
edition Police Administration
What agency/administration funded crime analysis in the late 1970's?
Ans✓✓✓ LEAA, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
When was IACA established? Ans✓✓✓ 1990
When was the first IACA conference? Ans✓✓✓ 1991
What other resources helped establish the Crime Analysis profession?
Ans✓✓✓ US Government through community and problem oriented
policing.
National Institute of Justice's Crime Mapping and Analysis Program
(CMAP).
,Crime Mapping Research Center (later known as the Mapping and
Analysis for Public Safety Program.
Crime Analysis Ans✓✓✓ A profession and a process in which a set of
quantitative and qualitative techniques are used to analyze data valuable
to police agencies.
Types of Crime Analysis Ans✓✓✓ Tactical Crime Analysis
Strategic Crime Analysis
Crime Intelligence Analysis
Administrative Crime Analysis
Tactical Crime Analysis Ans✓✓✓ Analysis of police data directed
towards short term development of patrol and investigative priorities and
deployment of resources.
Strategic Crime Analysis Ans✓✓✓ Analysis of data directed towards
development and evaluation of long-term strategies, policies and
prevention techniques.
Crime Intelligence Analysis Ans✓✓✓ Analysis of data about people
involved in crimes, particularly repeat offenders, repeat victims and
criminal organizations and networks.
, Administrative Crime Analysis Ans✓✓✓ Analysis directed towards the
administrative needs of the police agency, its government and its
community.
Crime Analysis is NOT: Ans✓✓✓ Crime scene investigation or forensic
science.
Profiling
Criminological Research
Most frequent method to identify crime patterns: Ans✓✓✓ Daily review
of crime reports and comparison of those reports to past incidents
Crime patterns focus on the following: Ans✓✓✓ Who
What
When
Where
How
Hot Spots Ans✓✓✓ Small geographic concentrations of crime, usually
long term
Three ways crime collects around people in crime intelligence analysis:
Ans✓✓✓ Individual offenders (repeat offenders, top offenders, high
profile offenders)
